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STOCKHOLM, February 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pendulum Instruments, a company of the Orolia Group (NYSE Alternext Paris - FR0010501015 - ALORO), today announced the expansion of its product portfolio with the addition of a one-channel, single frequency (L1) GPS signal generator. This high-technology solution dedicated to complex navigation applications and environments has been acquired from Naviva, a Space Systems Finland (SSF) business unit, a leading provider of location...

By Scott Iwasaki Deseret News Pendulum, known in the music world as a drum-and-bass band from Australia, is embarking on its first United States tour in a few weeks. The band -- vocalist/synthesizerist Rob Swire, bassist Gareth McGrillen, guitarist Peredure ap Gwynedd, DJ Paul "El Hornet" Harding and drummer Paul Kodish -- were arriving on a plane in Brazil from the United Kingdom when the Deseret News caught up with McGrillen via e-mail. Here is the e-mail interview: Deseret News: What...

By CHRISTINA PATTERSON "Cultures," said an academic called Professor Ellis Cashmore on Radio 4 this week, "are no better or worse than each other." Indeed. Cultures, for example, which offer a tasty smorgasbord of rabbits, beans and humans to whet the appetites of angry gods; cultures in which children who emerge from birth looking a little puny are left on hillsides to die; cultures which mark the emergence of a human infant with batteries of benefits; cultures in which politicians fawn over...

U.S. physicists have designed a new atomic clock that will not gain nor lose a second in more than 200 million years.The new precision clock was developed in the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, a combined effort between NIST and the University of Colorado in Boulder. Another atomic clock was also created there, and both clocks are raising the standard of time."These clocks are improving so rapidly that it is impossible to tell which one will be the best," said Tom...

By Jeremy Lovell LONDON (Reuters) - A manuscript charting the birth of modern science, lost for more than 200 years, goes on sale on Tuesday with a price tag in excess of one million pounds. Hailed as "science's missing link," the journal of Robert Hooke contains details of experiments he conducted as curator at the Royal Society from 1662 and his correspondence as its secretary from 1677. It was found by chance in a cupboard at a private house in Hampshire by experts from auctioneer...